Stiff Fine

When you read this quote and you know it came from a citizen of the great state of Alabama, you know you're in for some good newspaper reading:

“This book is sick,” said Pennington. “I’m 50 years old, and I’ve raised 11 sets of kids and been through many a library, and I’ve never seen a book like this in a school library before.”

Does anyone know what a set of kids is?

Also, bravo to the Tuscaloosa News for publishing an excerpt of the sick book.

Comments

[Frank]

A review from the American Library Association’s Booklist, describes the main character as a promiscuous teen with an unstable home life who has oral sex with multiple partners.

So, it's describing exactly what happens at high schools across the country every day? Shocking! What's more hilarious, is that the good little born-again Christian girls are handing ;em out like hotcakes because they don't consider it sex.

[Bill Ectric]

I love the way you say that we're "in for some good newspaper reading." HeeHeee, so true, so true. I seem to recall some sexual escapades in the Bible, too.

[Levi]

According to mathematical set theory, a set is a collection of distinct objects containing no duplicates. So I believe the respondent is attempting to make it clear that he has raised 11 kids and none of them are identical twins.

[tito]

true, but he did not say the sets were different....so he may have raised multiple instantiations (better word please?) of the same set. for example:

{Tom, Dick, Harry}
{Tom, Dick, Harry}
.
.
.
{Larry, Moe, Curly}

Further, he did not exclude the possibility of an empty set ({}), so he could have theoretically raised 11 empty sets of children, (or "kids" as he calls them) totalling zero real-world children. Of course, there is also no upper-limit to the number of children in each set, so he could have (theoretically) raised 11*[infinity] children.
i'm just saying

[Bill Ectric]

Well, let's see, you would need at least four kids: Tom, Dick, Harry, and Woodrow.

1. Tom
2. Dick
3. Harry
4. Woodrow
5. Tom, Dick
5. Dick, Harry
6. Tom, Harry
7. Tom, Woodrow
8. Dick, Woodrow
9. Tom, Dick, Woodrow
10. Harry, Dick, Woodrow
11. Tom, Dick, Harry, Woodrow